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2:15pm PDT |
Football: Wales in 2-0 win |
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Summary: Freddy Eastwood scores twice as Wales stroll to a comfortable win over Luxembourg. |
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Cnn.com |
2:13pm PDT |
Man sentenced for microwaving baby |
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Cnn.com |
2:13pm PDT |
Father sentenced for microwaving baby |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
Ingredients for life found on strange Saturn moon
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The basic ingredients for life --
warmth, water and organic chemicals -- are in place on Saturn's
small moon Enceladus, scientists said on Wednesday in detailing
the content of huge plumes erupting off its surface. |
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Yahoo News |
2:06pm PDT |
Stocks decline on weak economic data
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street pulled back Wednesday after a drop in February's durable goods orders injected more pessimism about the economy into the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 110 points. |
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2:03pm PDT |
Militiamen holding out in Basra fighting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's prime minister warned gunmen in the oil port of Basra to surrender their weapons by Friday or face harsher measures, as clashes between security forces and Shiite militia fighters spread throughout the south and in Baghdad. |
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2:00pm PDT |
Iraq PM gives Shiite fighters ultimatum
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iraq's premier on Wednesday gave militiamen battling his forces in Basra 72 hours to lay down their arms, as firefights in several Shiite strongholds across the country killed more than 50 people. |
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1:53pm PDT |
Chute find rekindles D.B. Cooper legend
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A tattered, half-buried parachute unearthed by kids had D.B. Cooper country chattering Wednesday over the fate of the skyjacker, who leaped from a plane 36 years ago and into the lore of the Pacific Northwest. |
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Yahoo News |
1:48pm PDT |
Battles across Iraq's south in crackdown
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
ordered Shi'ite militiamen to surrender on Wednesday as a
crackdown on followers of powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
spread across southern towns leaving a ceasefire in tatters. |
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Yahoo News |
1:45pm PDT |
Richie Sambora arrested on suspected DUI
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora has been arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol. The 48-year-old guitarist was arrested just before 11 p.m. Tuesday after an officer noticed his black Hummer weaving in traffic lanes, said Lagun |
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1:44pm PDT |
Southern Baptist Head: Christians Should Be Involved in Politics |
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Summary: The president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination dismissed the idea that politics was too “dirty” for Christians and instead urged believers to be involved in the political ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Foreign press visit Tibet as China says 660 surrendered
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China moved Wednesday to show it had the situation in Tibet under control, saying more than 660 people had surrendered over deadly unrest and escorting foreign journalists on a tour of the region. |
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1:35pm PDT |
Mass arrests in Tibet; Bush urges China to talk
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese authorities have launched mass
arrests of Tibetans in Lhasa for interrogation about the
fiercest anti-Chinese uprising for decades, a Beijing-based
source told Reuters on Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:28pm PDT |
GOP senator set for battle with comedian |
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1:28pm PDT |
Big belly boosts risk of later dementia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
1:27pm PDT |
NFL considering ban on long hair |
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1:10pm PDT |
Bush calls fuse delivery a mistake
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush, addressing an embarrassing flap that has strained U.S.-China relations, told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday that the shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan was a mistake. |
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1:09pm PDT |
Obama chides McCain on economy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed Republican presidential rival John McCain on Wednesday for what he called a "sit back and watch" approach to the economic troubles gripping the nation. |
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BBC News |
1:05pm PDT |
Coma attack doctor suspended |
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Summary: A doctor who beat a paramedic into a coma is suspended by the General Medical Council for 12 months. |
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Cnn.com |
1:03pm PDT |
Robin Williams, wife split after 19 years |
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Yahoo News |
1:03pm PDT |
Richard Widmark dies at 93
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Actor Richard Widmark, who earned an
Oscar nomination playing a psychopath in 1947's film noir "Kiss
of Death," has died aged 93, a medical official in his home
state of Connecticut said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:01pm PDT |
Endeavour aims for evening touchdown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With fine weather expected for landing, the shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven aimed for a touchdown right before sunset Wednesday to wrap up "a two-week adventure" at the international space station. |
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Yahoo News |
12:57pm PDT |
Canada court told of Guantanamo rights violations
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Canadian investigators violated the
rights of terrorism suspect Omar Khadr when they interrogated
him at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers told
Canada's top court on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:55pm PDT |
Companies use scans to track employees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses around the nation are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise t |
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
NFL to consider hair length rule
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Troy Polamalu might not have to worry about getting tackled again by his hair. At their meetings in Palm Beach, Fla., next week, NFL owners will consider a proposal to ban players from having hair flow from their helmets below their names on the back |
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Yahoo News |
12:44pm PDT |
Many killed by U.S. strike in Iraq's Hilla: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Many people were killed or wounded
by a U.S. air strike called to support Iraqi forces in the town
of Hilla south of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi security sources
said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
New home sales drop to 13-year low
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sales of new homes fell in February for the fourth straight month, pushing activity down to a 13-year low. While the rate of decline has slowed, the worst slump in more than two decades has not runs its course, analysts said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Shuttle astronauts ready for trip home
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Astronauts on the space
shuttle Endeavour closed their spaceship's cargo doors on
Wednesday to prepare for a homecoming in Florida after
delivering a Japanese storage room and a Canadian robot to the
International Space Station. |
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BBC News |
12:19pm PDT |
Bush and Putin to meet next week |
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Summary: President Bush accepts a Russian invitation to meet for talks on the planned US missile defence system. |
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Yahoo News |
12:18pm PDT |
Court: can mentally ill defendant be own lawyer?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court considered on
Wednesday whether mentally ill criminal defendants who have
been found competent to stand trial must be allowed to
represent themselves. |
